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Pakistani security forces have freed Shamraiz Khan, who lives in the small house opposite to the main entrance of the compound where Osama bin Laden had lived for five years, Khan's son Qasim told Xinhua Saturday. Osama bin Laden was killed along with his son and two other people by the US forces in a compound at Bilal Town, some three kilometers from the northwest garrison city of Abbotabad. Qasim said that his father called him late Friday night on mobile phone and told him that the army had freed him after interrogation. He said that his father had gone to his ancestral village rather than coming to his house in Bilal Town, and said that his father has been put under house arrest. "My father is well but he did not talk much and just said that his cell phone had been taken away by the army," Qasim said. Earlier Qasim and his grandfather told journalists that Shamraiz Khan was taken away by Pakistani security men hours after the US Special Forces conducted raid over the compound where Osama had lived for five years. Shamraiz's wife told reporters that they had been living in the neighborhood of Osama bin Laden but she never had any knowledge about the people living in the compound. She said that she had seen two men living in the compound and some time they were seen going with children. "However we have never seen women," she said. Qasim said the two men -- Tariq and Arshad -- said that they came from Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtoonkha province, and Charsadda, another main town some 40 kilometers from Peshawar. They had a red-color Suzuki car, but no one in the area knows about their work, he added. Prayer leader in the town said that Shamraiz Khan had also served as guard of the Osama compound but his family members rejected the claim and said he is a farmer. |
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